The July 16 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. News PB Places Sale of Los Angeles Church in Limbo Puerto Rican Church Works Amid Economic Chaos Obstacles to Full Communion Remembering Pulse Features Retratos de Trinidad | Photo essay by Matthew Townsend Giving for the Long Term | By G. Jeffrey MacDonald … [Read more...] about New: July 16 TLC Online
Archives for June 2017
Darkness Closed in on Caravaggio
Cultures Caravaggio’s Last Two Paintings The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street New York City Through July 9 Review by Pamela A. Lewis The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reunited two of the final paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, on exceptional loan from the Banca Intesa Sanpaolo in … [Read more...] about Darkness Closed in on Caravaggio
PB Places Church Sale in Limbo
Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry, weighing in publicly for the first time in the church’s proceedings against Los Angeles Bishop J. Jon Bruno, on has formally prohibited Bruno from selling the Newport Beach church property that is central to the two-year-old disciplinary matter. Earlier on June 29, the church attorney prosecuting the Bruno case recommended that Bruno “be … [Read more...] about PB Places Church Sale in Limbo
C of E to Test Wireless Payments
Plans are afoot for Church of England parishes to try contactless payment systems for donations. Later this summer about 40 parish churches will use hand-held terminals to process card payments. The top figure that can be used for contactless payments in the United Kingdom is £30. The trial may prepare the way for the system to be rolled out in 2018. The trial will encompass … [Read more...] about C of E to Test Wireless Payments
Godspeed, Bishop Lee
Thank you, Bishop Lee! from The Episcopal Diocese of NC on Vimeo. The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee has served in many interim ministries since resigning as Bishop of Virginia in October 2009. Most recently he has served as assisting bishop in the Diocese of North Carolina. The Rt. Rev. Ann Hodges-Copple, Bishop Pro Tempore of North Carolina, spoke recently with Bishop Lee as … [Read more...] about Godspeed, Bishop Lee
Gloves Come Off in Bruno Trial
The attorney who is prosecuting disciplinary proceedings against Bishop J. Jon Bruno of Los Angeles has called for a forensic audit of a corporate entity controlled entirely by Bruno, whom he describes as “a rogue bishop.” It marks a sharp escalation of the battle over the imminent sale of a huge padlocked church near the Newport Beach waterfront. A forensic audit is a … [Read more...] about Gloves Come Off in Bruno Trial
Four Honors in Jerusalem
The Most Rev. Suheil Dawani, Archbishop in Jerusalem and the Middle East, has installed four new canons at St George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem: Episcopal Canons: The Most Rev. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, and the Most Rev. Paul Kwong, Archbishop of Hong Kong and chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council Honorary Episcopal Canon: … [Read more...] about Four Honors in Jerusalem
Dueling Motions in Bruno Case
Bishop J. Jon Bruno and the church attorney prosecuting his case have responded to a church panel’s sanctions on the sale of St. James the Great in Newport Beach. Bruno Appeal by TheLivingChurchdocs on Scribd Church Attorney's Response to Bruno Motion to End Sanctions by George Conger on Scribd … [Read more...] about Dueling Motions in Bruno Case